PENINSULA Panthers get ready to prowl
Exhibits on the grow
Hockey is back on the ice this month as the Panthers hold an open players’ camp, page 11
The Sidney Museum and Archives is expanding in its new space on Beacon Avenue, page 3
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Friday, August 2, 2013
Ciggies suspect in fire Devon MacKenzie News staff
The keen eye of a passerby caught a hedge fire that broke out around 9 p.m. on Monday at 6805 Veyaness Rd. before it raged out of control. Central Saanich fire crews were on the scene just after the call came in and were able to get the fire under control within two hours. “The cedar hedge was fully engulfed and the fire was burning so hot and it’s so dry that ash and sparks from the main fire caused another area covered in cedar mulch to smoulder,” said Ron French, Central Saanich’s fire chief. Please see: Dry, hot weather also, page 2 Steven Heywood/News staff
VRCMS members Jack Lowe, Al Tamosiunas and Jack Price kneel with a sampling of the model aircraft that will be in the sky or on display at their 12th annual Victoria’s Largest Little Airshow Aug. 10 and 11 in Central Saanich.
Biggest little airshow coming
Event will help Santas Anonymous and Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation Steven Heywood News staff
Submitted photo/Liz Waibel
Central Saanich fire crews were kept busy Monday night after a hedge caught fire on Veyaness Road.
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With a roar, the twin turbo jet engines on Jack Price’s A10 Warthog rev up and propel the replica military airplane onto the short grass field where modelers regularly gather to take to the skies. Fuelled by kerosene, the engines look — and sound — like the real thing. Price and fellow Victoria Radio Control Modelers Society (VRCMS) members Al Tamosiunas, Jack Lowe and Mike Scholefield are getting their scale-model aircraft
ready for the club’s 12th annual airshow, dubbed Victoria’s Largest Little Airshow. It takes place August 10 and 11 at the grass field along Lochside Drive near Michell’s Farm in Central Saanich. It’s a popular event, says Scholefield, who has been co-ordinating the airshow since it began. “It used to be a scale contest,” he explained. “The aircraft would fly and were judged for their realism and how their owners could fly them.” That was in 2001 and people came out to see the models take to the air.
The following year, however, the event really grew after a bit of advertising. “People just came,” he said. “In 2002, poof! It really did take off.” The show has always been a fundraiser and in 2001 it raised $300. Since then, the club saw the airshow popularity rise — as did the coffers. Over the last 11 years, Scholefield said the club has raised more than $160,000 for C-FAX’s Santas Anonymous and the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation. Please see: Model airshow raising money, page 6
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